Duke Osborn
{{Short description|American football player (1897–1976)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|02|01|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|11|02|1897|02|01|mf=y}}
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| weight_lb = 188
| high_school = DuBois (DuBois, Pennsylvania)
| college = Penn State
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| pastteams = * Canton Bulldogs ({{NFL Year|1921|1923}})
- Cleveland Bulldogs ({{NFL Year|1924}})
- Pottsville Maroons ({{NFL Year|1925|1928}})
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| highlights = * 3× NFL champion (1922, 1923, 1924)
- Pottsville Maroons disputed championship team (1925)
- First-team All-Pro (1922)
- 2× Canton Daily News: 1st team all-NFL (1922, 1923)
- GB Press-Gazette: 2nd team all-NFL (1925)
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Robert Duke Osborn (February 1, 1897 – November 2, 1976) was an American professional football player who played with the Canton Bulldogs during the team's National Football League Championship series years in the 1920s.
Biography
After high school, Osborn attended Penn State University. Osborn made his professional debut in the National Football League (NFL) in 1921 with the Canton Bulldogs. He would go to help the Bulldogs win back-to-back NFL Championships in 1922 and 1923. During the course of his career, Osborn also played for the Cleveland Bulldogs and Pottsville Maroons. He spent a total of 8 years in the NFL. Osborn also became part owner of the Maroons in 1928, when team's owner, Dr. John G. Streigel, "loaned" the team to three players Wilbur "Pete" Henry, Herb Stein and Osborn. However, after the season Streigel, who probably still had majority ownership, sold the team to a New England–based partnership that included Maroons' standout George Kenneally.{{cite web |url=http://home.comcast.net/~ghostsofthegridiron/Maroons.htm |title=Pottsville Maroons |accessdate=2006-10-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215153235/http://home.comcast.net/~ghostsofthegridiron/Maroons.htm |archivedate=2009-02-15 }}
After his career in football Osborn became a general superintendent for Oldsmobile's assembly division.{{Cite web | url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1982/JSH0901/jsh0901d.pdf | title=The Stolen Championship of the Pottsville Maroons: A Case Study in the Emergence of Modern Professional Football | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402012033/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1982/JSH0901/jsh0901d.pdf | archive-date=2012-04-02 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1982/JSH0901/jsh0901d.pdf The Stolen Championship of the Pottsville Maroons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402012033/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1982/JSH0901/jsh0901d.pdf |date=2012-04-02 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090215153235/http://home.comcast.net/~ghostsofthegridiron/Maroons.htm Ghosts of the Gridiron: Pottsville Maroons]
{{1922 Canton Bulldogs}}
{{1923 Canton Bulldogs}}
{{1924 Cleveland Bulldogs}}
{{1925 Pottsville Maroons}}
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Category:Players of American football from Pennsylvania
Category:Canton Bulldogs players
Category:Cleveland Bulldogs players
Category:Penn State Nittany Lions football players
Category:Sportspeople from Clearfield County, Pennsylvania